A new, more flexible identity infrastructure is on the horizon. With the growing adoption of federation standards and protocols, such as SAML 2.0, OpenID, and WS-Trust, both enterprises and end users will benefit from enhanced security, increased privacy, and a better experience. Read this white paper for more information about the new system. 

Delivering smarter security and more customized services are at the top of any IT agenda. Both would be easier and cheaper to achieve with a common infrastructure, in what we call an identity and context service. In this paper, we’ll address how such a shared service can serve these two very different IT initiatives. 

Uncover why many organizations require greater simplicity in their unified communications (UC) collaboration tools – for both end-users and IT – in order for their UC strategy to be a success. Learn best practices to integrate UC tools, potential challenges you may face, and more! 

<p>There is a growing recognition that rather than being a distraction or a time drain, social tools could hold the key to a more productive way of doing business, this report from Google argues.</p> 

This article covers the top 10 tools available to help make virtualization management easier. 

This Computer Weekly buyer’s guide to IT tools shows how you can use software and systems to improve the running of your IT department. 

This white paper discusses the growing trend of using data integration to make large amounts of information a fully-accessible and useful part of your organization. Learn how this strategy can help manage organizational data and why performance is being used as the new benchmark for success. 

As a younger, tech-savvy generation infiltrates the workforce, they are bringing social technologies with them. Read this white paper to learn how social tools are becoming game changers in the workplace environment and how you can learn to embrace and incorporate them into your organization to foster higher productivity. 

The globalization of all industries, the need to decrease application lifecycles and the adoption of agile tools and methods are building momentum and taking on a life of their own. Enterprises of all kinds are realizing that their traditional software development tools and approaches can no longer deliver end-to-end ALM for business agility. 

Read this white paper to discover you can get a clear view of actual financial data through this tool suite. 

This white paper informs you on all you need to know about the new troubleshooting tools that are bundled with Windows 7 and provide you, an IT Professional, with the knowledge to quickly figure out what’s happening “under the hood” on a Windows 7 computer. 

Microsoft provides freely available and quite powerful tools that can help you image and deploy Windows 7. This white paper explores those components and their processes used during these deployments.